Psalms 129

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:	1 A song of ascents. Much have they oppressed me from my youth, now let Israel say.
2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.	2 Much have they oppressed me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.	3 Upon my back the plowers plowed, as they traced their long furrows.
4 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.	4 But the just LORD cut me free from the ropes of the yoke of the wicked.
5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.	5 May they be scattered in disgrace, all who hate Zion.
6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:	6 May they be like grass on the rooftops withered in early growth,
7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.	7 Never to fill the reaper's hands, nor the arms of the binders of sheaves,
8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.	8 With none passing by to call out: "The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!"